Representatives of unnamed NBA teams told Kansas center Udoka Azubuike that if he kept his name in the 2018 NBA Draft pool, there was a good chance he’d emerge as a first-round pick in the June 21 proceedings in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“I didn’t speak to a lot of teams, but I didn’t have an agent. It was pretty much just me talking to the teams, a few teams (at NBA Combine). The few teams I talked to were like, ‘Yeah you were going to be in the first round, probably a late first-rounder.’ It was basically just my decision what to do next, making the right choice for me,” said Azubuike, KU’s 7-foot junior center from Nigeria, on Sunday afternoon.